INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DAVID BOWIE TRAVELLING AROUND THE WORLD

Rarely seen intimate photographs of the late David Bowie document a school friend’s THREE-YEAR PARTY with the star as they travelled around the world.

The relaxed images show some relaxed and rare-off screen moments with the ‘Starman’ singer during the era of his re-emergence as the whacky and flamboyant alter-ego Ziggy Stardust.

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The Geoff MacCormack Collection is being exhibited and shows the pair travelling between 1973 and 1976, after he was asked to be a backing singer, percussionist and dancer for Bowie.

The infamous showman, born David Robert Jones, has pictured everywhere from Siberia to New Mexico, Los Angeles, Hollywood and more.

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The Rockstar who flaunts red hair for several on the images, is caught unguarded and real, in the exhibition that appears like a ‘family photo album’ of ‘holiday snaps’.

Geoff described the time travelling with pal flight-phobic Bowie, as like a ‘the party that lasted for three years’, in which he documented their friendship in the endearingly candid images.

They are on show at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, from March 24 – April 14.

It will mark over two-years since the tragic loss when the Man Who Fell To Earth departed this world.

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Geoff MacCormack commented on his time: “Just suppose your Brilliant Pal said: ‘Will you join my band [The Spiders from Mars] and come on a tour? And would you mind awfully if we travelled [first class] by sea to New York, and then sailed from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Canada, Hawaii and on to Japan? And then, from Japan to Siberia, through Russia [Trans-Siberian Express] to Moscow [for May Day Parade], Poland, East and West Germany, just in time for tea at the George V Hotel in Paris? Followed by a relaxing holiday in Rome, just to chill out?’

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“And then, just suppose, when you thought all the fun had finished, your Brilliant Pal said: ‘Would you mind being a dog [Diamond], coming back to New York on an even better ship, eating caviar every day and joining another band, then another band, helping out on a few albums [six], and generally hanging out and having the time of your life for a couple more years?’

“Supposing all that happened…Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have kept a photo or two?”